Sonaar Luthra

TED Fellow Sonaar Luthra is building a weather service for water to help businesses and communities manage 21st-century water risk.

Why you should listen

Sonaar Luthra is the founder and CEO of Water Canary, a company building a weather service for water to help governments, businesses and communities manage 21st-century water risk. He believes that transforming the world's water data collection infrastructure is the most urgent -- and least understood -- challenge facing humanity.

Luthra began developing water sensors in graduate school and founded Water Canary in an effort to make water quality data more affordable and accessible. Today he's developing technologies to monitor rapid transformations in water quality and availability -- as well as the protocols, systems, policies and financial instruments required to implement them at scale.

Sonaar Luthra (watch his TED Talk) is packing water-safety analysis and mobile networking into the Water Canary — a handheld, open-source, and easy-to-use gadget accessible to all — hoping to save lives and gather information that will improve global water health. You have a background as a writer, educator and journalist. How did you end […]